The Psychoanalysis of Race

by Christopher Lane (Editor)

Overview

Are divisive political forces the source of the historical persistence of racism and its alarming recurrence in contemporary society? Or are there also subtler, more intractable reasons for racism's irrational power and historical persistence? This collection of essays takes the study of racism into a radically new direction----that of unconscious fantasies and identities----offering perspectives from a variety of leading figures in many fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231109475
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	06/10/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Christopher Lane is associate professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire.

What People are Saying About This

Joan Copjec

In this deservedly big--and, happily, excellent--book, a range of voices, both celebrated and new, spells out with precision the resources psychoanalysis puts at our disposal and the ways it sometimes fails us with regard to questions of race. Individually and en bloc, these rich and subtle essays will orient the debate for a long time to come. -- (Joan Copjec, author of Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists)

Editorial Reviews

Applying a psychoanalytic critique to works of literature, explores what it means today for people to invoke race and ethnicity as concepts organizing their identifications and lives. Highlights the irrational forms of racism to demonstrate that prejudice can coexist with the greatest support for ethnic and cultural diversity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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